Clear cell carcinoma of ovary is uncommon ovarian tumour that arises from surface epithelium of ovary. It has well-known association with ovarian endometriosis. We report here the first case of bilateral clear cell carcinoma of ovaries in a 40-year-old woman with a 17-year history of bilateral ovarian endometriosis. In addition, during the longstanding duration of the endometriosis, the patient...

Nomenclature Various names have been applied to this entity. These include “ovarian tumors of low malignant potential,” “borderline ovarian tumors,” “atypical proliferating ovarian tumors,” and even “borderline ovarian carcinomas.” Each of these terms has its drawbacks. “Low malignant potential” suggests that these tumors have a certain propensity to become malignant. In fact, as Kurman and Tri...

Struma ovarii or monodermal teratoma is a specialized ovarian neoplasm which mainly constitutes mature thyroid tissue. It is a rare tumor which comprises 1% of all ovarian tumors and 2.7% of all dermoid tumors. Thyroid tissue can be observed in 5-15% of dermoid tumors but to designate the tumor as struma ovarii, it must comprise more than 50% of the ovarian tissue. This study was conducted in t...

Carney complex (CNC) is a familial multiple neoplasia and lentiginosis syndrome (OMIM 160980, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim) with features overlapping those of other multiple endocrine neoplasias and hamartomatoses, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) in particular. Although a number of patients with CNC and ovarian tumors have been described in individual patient reports, it is unclear whether ova...

Lau et al. authored a valuable article entitled “Impact of ovarian preservation in women with endometrial cancer”. This retrospective cohort study enrolled 529 patients with endometrial cancer between 2000 and 2010. Among these, 17 were in the ovarian preservation group and 517 in the bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) group. The authors investigated the impact of ovarian preservation on the...

Ovarian tumors can be classified by their origin - epithelial tumors, germ cell and stromal tumors. Malignant struma ovarii (MSO) are 0.01% of all ovarian In order to as a ovarii, more than 50% the teratoma consists thyroid tissue. The tissue in exhibits same histological physiological properties that cervical Poorly differentiated carcinoma (PDTC) is an extremely rare occurrence when arising f...

A recent exome-sequencing study revealed prevalent mitogen-activated protein kinase 1 (MAPK1) p.E322K mutation in cervical carcinoma. It remains largely unknown whether ovarian carcinomas also harbor MAPK1 mutations. As paralogous gene mutations co‑occur frequently in human malignancies, we analyzed here a total of 263 ovarian carcinomas for the presence of MAPK1 and paralogous MAPK3 mutations ...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to evaluate the CT findings of epithelial origin ovarian carcinoma according to the degree of histologic differentiation. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study enrolled 124 patients with 31 well differentiated, 44 moderately differentiated and 95 poorly differentiated carcinomas with epithelial origin. The CT images were retrospectively evaluated with regard to bilateral ovaria...

Ovarian torsion is a surgical emergency demanding timely diagnosis and treatment to prevent loss of the ovaries which if happens may result in functional and emotional consequences. Simple (less than 5cm in size) ovarian cysts require follow-up for potential self-resolution. We describe a case of antenatally detected bilateral ovarian cysts that developed bilateral ovarian torsions on follow-up...

A prospective study was conducted at the OB/GYN department of Kasr El Eini hospital, Cairo University from Jan 2000 - Oct 2002. The study included 51 patients in the age group between 40-70 years (including pre and post menopausal women). All patients were subjected to following after taking a consent from each patient: Complete clinical evaluation; including history taking and clinical examina...